Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-20
MISSOURI, STATE NEWS.

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Mrs. NJ. A. RosenbI att lost her pocket
book and 81. 400 worth of diamonds, in st.
Louis, few days ago, which were found
and returned by Harry Casey.
A negro burglar got into the house OF
Captain r. F. Sass, in st. Louis few
nights ago, and, being discovered, jumped
out through window, ba lily injuring
himself with window glass. He was SUBJ
sequently arrested.
Naval Cadet White, SON of Judge White
of st. Louis, and who was appointed to
the Naval Academy by Congressman
O'Neill about year ago, has resigned. He
stood very high in his classes at Annapo-
Lis, but was compelled toresign On account
OF trouble with his eyes.
The Pacific Express Company was rob.
bed few days since of money, estimated
at $4,000 to $50, 900, on Southern run out
of ST. Louis. A trusted employee is sus-
pected.
= MIR. Pullen, alias Armour, of the firm of
"Armour & Co.." st. Louis, who was
charged some time ago with an attempt
to swindle shippers of country produce,
has been released from Jail. Pullen was
sentenced to six months in Jail for the
part he played in the confidence game.
His sentence was dated back to the time
he was arrested.
The negroes are taking lively interest
in the local option fight in Lafayette Coun.
ty. A monster meeting of colored voters
was held at Lexington a few nights ago,
at which it was voted to oppose the opera
ton of the Wood bill. It is not thought
possible now that the optionists can carry
the county.
The case of Joseph Guyal and James
Foreman, charged with stealing silver
bricks from the Pacific Express Company,
was called in Judge Noonan's court in st.
Louis the other day. Foreman, seeing the
judges stern look always in his direction
weakened and squealed, telling how he
and Guyal exchanged lead bricks for sill
yer ones, which they sold and divided the
money. On his evidence Guyal was held
in the sum of $4,000 to the grand jury.
Clinton County voted for the Local
Option law by about 600 majority.
The Pacific Express Company at st.
Louis has recovered all the money which
had been taken away by Messenger Owen,
and the messenger has been set at liberty.
st. Louis merchants say the volume of
this falls business has exceeded by twen-
ty-five per cent. the trade of any previous
autumn in the history of the city.
Mauohan Connor, railroad laborer.
aged forty-five, was found dead at the
foot of the bluff wall in the Wabash Rail-
road yards at Kansas City few days
ago. He had been on a spree and is sup
posed to have fallen from the bluff during
the crush at the Presidents visit.
James Finley, colored boy, was shot
in Kansas City a few days ago by Mat
Meyer, white boy. Finley died few
moments afterward. Meyer was arrested
and is held to await the result of the in
quest. Both boys were about sixteen
years old.
A platform on which iron is piled at the
Missouri Car & Wheel Company's works
in st. Louis gave way few days since
and fell upon Samuel Boyd, colored, and
Joseph Herresche. The latter was sent to
the hospital, where he died. Boyd was
taken to his home and will be out in a few
days.
John Burke, a laborer, residing in st.
Louis, went into the DAILY Brothers saloon,
a sporting resort, few nights ago, and
there encountered the bouncer of the
house, Lee Mathews. Mathews, instead of
using his fists, employed his teeth, and bit
half of Burke's nose and half of the right
ear off. Mathews was arrested.
Claude Perrie, the young white man
savagely attacked by negroes at May
view, Lafayette County, last week, and
who was stabbed several times with
razor, died of his wounds. This will make
more serious the charge against Hughes
and Childs, the twosmen who did the cut
ting, and both of whom are in Jail. The
grand jury has not yet made a return on
the case. Perrie was on his way to the
post-office, and paused for a moment to
look in the open door of q building where
negro dance was in progress, when his
assailants ran out and stabbed him.
Mr.. Jules Robidoux, we'll known in st.
Joseph, dropped dead at the Union depot
at that city a few days ago. He was on
his way to Kansas City and was running
to catch the train, and, just as he went to
step on board the cars, dropped from an
attack of heart disease and Immediately
expired.
Fire started from some unknown cause
in a room on the fourth floor. of the Pal
ace Lodging-house in Kansas City few
days ago. A young man, VIM. J. Dryer,
was cut off from the stairway by the
flames and nearly crazed. He rushed
backward and forward for some time, and
finally secured a short rope, down which
he was induced to slide to the story below,
when he was rescued. Several thousand
persons witnessed the incident.
John Callahan and J. T. Green, en-
ployed by the telephone company at Kan
sas City as line-repairers, were mailing
some decorations on an arch on the corner
of Sixth and Main streets, a few days
since, when the arch broke and precipitat.
ed them to the ground. Both were badly
bruised, and a deep cash was cut over
Caliahan's right eye. A large piece of the
arch fell on Green, and it is feared he is
injured.
AS Frank Becker and Charley Brown
were guiding sand-scow down the Kaw
river, few days ago, it collided with the
piling being driven for the Kansas City,
Wyandotte & Northwestern bridge.
Brown was thrown overheard and
drowned, the current being too swift for
Becker to make any effort to save him.
Brown was from Moberly, and had been
employed by Becker only one week. He
was single and about twenty one years of
age.
The Missouri Grand Lodge of Masons
has sustained the order of the Grand Mas
ter calling upon the lodges under his juris
diction to expel all members who were in
any way connected with the liquor traffic.
Napthalia Lodge of st. Louis, of which
dozen prominent liquor men were men,
bers, refused to obey the order and the
charter of the lodge has been arrested.
The order was based on a law passed by
the lodge a number of years ago, which
set forth that hereafter no saloon-keepers
should become members of the order.
The Kansas City Exposition is open.
General Manager W. F. Merrill of the
Kansas City, st. Joseph & Council Bluffs
road is authority for the statement that
passengers will not be turnover the Rulo
bridge till next spring. The approach to
the bridge will first be shortened, by
means of cuts and fills, a distance of six
miles.
Bernheimer Bros & Co.'s confidential